Meet the CIA's torture architect whose firm was paid $80 million by taxpayers

© US Department of DefenseDetainees at Guantanamo Bay James Elmer Mitchell, a former Air Force psychologist credited with teaching the CIA how to torture war on terror detainees in the 2000s, is the subject of an on-camera interview with VICE correspondent Kaj Larsen.This isn't the first time Dr. Mitchell has been profiled. We first heard about him in a 2005 article, the , and the have explored the role he and Dr. Bruce Jessen played in designing...

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Arizona Congressman refers to Native Americans as "wards of the federal government"

© Reuters / Adrees Latif In an Arizona community meeting, Rep. Paul Gosar made a controversial remark that offended Native Americans in attendance and across the country when he called them 'wards of the federal government'.The Republican representative, as well as one of his Democratic counterparts, Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, held a roundtable discussion in the northern Arizona city of Flagstaff. The legislators were defending a contentious land-swap...

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Afghan 'Bruce Lee' spins the web with his kung fu

© Reuters / Mohammad IsmailAbbas Alizada, who calls himself the Afghan Bruce Lee Meet Afghanistan's Bruce Lee look-alike, Abbas Alizada! The 20-year-old from Kabul, nicknamed 'Bruce Hazara,' not only bears a striking physical resemblance to the famous kung fu legend, but also manages to pull off his martial arts moves.The young Afghan has kicked his way through the internet, gaining wide popularity through videos and photos showcasing his talents.[embedded...

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Dmitry Orlov: For the USA, defeat is victory, ignorance is strength

© Humansarefree.com On the wall of George Orwell's Ministry of Truth from his novel there were three slogans:WAR IS PEACEFREEDOM IS SLAVERYIGNORANCE IS STRENGTHIt occurred to me that these apply just a little bit too well to the way the Washington, DC establishment operates.War certainly is peace: just look at how peaceful Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Syria and the Ukraine have become thanks to their peacemaking efforts. The only departures...

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Minority Congressional staffers walk out in wake of grand jury decisions

© Unknown Some congressional staffers walked off their jobs Thursday afternoon to show their support for the families of Michael Brown and Eric Garner in the wake of the decision by two grand juries not to indict the police officers responsible for their deaths, according to three staffers who planned to participate in the event.The planned walkout came after days of protests across the country, including in Washington, D.C., where demonstrators...

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Selling psychopathy: ISIS releases pamphlet justifying child rape, sex slaves

© AFP Photo / Ahmad Al-Rubaye The Islamic State militant group has released a guide to the capture, punishment and rape of female non-believers. It outlines how to use them as their sex slaves and also justifies child rape.The guide appears in the form of questions and answers about how to capture and subjugate woman of other beliefs.The sickening list appears to have been printed on December 3 by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in-house publishers...

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Kremlin official: West behind surge in religious extremism

© RIA Novosti/Valeriy MelnikovChief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Ivanov The current outburst of religious extremism is a direct consequence of the short-sighted policies of Western nations, the head of Russian Presidential Administration says."You all know about the serious processes that are taking place in the Middle East and North Africa, where the ethnic and confessional balance is now being blatantly destroyed," Sergey...

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False-flag terror: Gladio B and the Battle for Eurasia using 'Islamic terrorists'

'Operation Gladio B' - the continuation of the old NATO Gladio program - covers a tangled web of covert operatives, billionaire Imams, drug running, prison breaks and terror strikes. Its goal: the destabilization of Central Asia and the Caucasus. In this presentation to Studium Generale in Groningen on November 19, 2014, James Corbett lifts the lid on this operation, its covert operatives, and the secret battle for the Eurasian heartland.[embedded...

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Jon Stewart calls Andrea Tantaros' 'awesome' rant "most ridiculous thing I've ever heard"

© YouTube host Jon Stewart dissected Fox News Andrea Tantaros' argument that the discussion surrounding the CIA's torture of detainees was being fueled politically to cast the U.S. as not being "awesome.""First of all, this administration doesn't want us to have this discussion," Stewart said. "And also, that's the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard."On Tuesday, Tantaros and her fellow panelists accused Senate Democrats of releasing the report...

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Duck and cover: The lull is breaking, the storm is nigh

September 15, 2008 is the day that Lehman died and the moment that the world's central banks led by the Fed went all-in. As it has turned out, that was an epochal leap into the most dangerous monetary deformation that the world has ever known.It needn't have been. What was really happening at this pregnant moment was that the remnants of honest capital markets were begging for a purge and liquidation of the speculative rot that had built up during...

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